Friday, July 17, 2015

Mistaken identity.

Today after walking into a patient room, a gentleman sees me and immediately pulls back his covers to his lap the moment I enter:Him:"Hey there. Did you want to see my pe--"Me: "WHOOOOAAA. . WHOOOAAAA. . nooo, uh, n-n-nooo sir."Him:"Oh, Lord. I thought you was Urology."

Welcome to Atlanta.

"Becoming is better than being." - Carol Dweck

Who me? I'm just glad to be here.

Honestly? I write this blog to share the human aspects of medicine + teaching + work/life balance with others and myself -- and to honor the public hospital and her patients--but never at the expense of patient privacy or dignity.
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What's the point?

"One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends of how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give."

~ James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"Do it for the story." ~ Antoinette Nguyen, MD, MPH

Details, names, time frames, etc. are always changed to protect anonymity. This may or may not be an amalgamation of true,quasi-true, or completely fictional events. But the lessons? They are always real and never, ever fictional. Got that?